For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing. Includes 10 songs: All of Me • April in Paris • Blues in Hoss Flat • Cute • Jumpin' at the Woodside • Li'l Darlin' • Moten Swing • One O'Clock Jump • Shiny Stockings • Until I Met You.

Using instructional text and actual songs, author Kenny Sultan covers blues in five different keys and positions and shows how they can be adapted to any key. Along with the basic blues rhythms and leads, fingerstyle blues is covered, using both an alternating and monotone bass. Sultan also touches on the specific techniques of various well-known players, open tuning, and bottleneck guitar. The accompanying CD includes each example and every song, most of which are played both in slow speed and at regular tempo.

Learn to improvise freely over any chord progression! The Fourth Note principle is a truly remarkable method for improvising in jazz and other genres, combining ear training, theory and technique to enable students to play with unrestricted creativity. In this book/CD pack, master guitarist Tony DeCaprio shows how to incorporate this technique using focus notes to anchor your playing within a chord progression through comprehensive, step-by-step instruction with examples for practical application of every new concept. The accompanying CD includes 99 full-demo tracks. A totally unique and revolutionary concept for teaching improvisation. There is nothing even remotely similar on the market. The approach is refreshing and brilliant. I highly recommend this book to both students and teachers. - Jimmy Bruno

Just knowing how to play a chord is never enough to make good music. Voice leading - moving individual chord voices smoothly from one chord to the next - is an essential skill for jazz guitarists. This book/CD pack by Berklee associate professor of guitar John Thomas shows you how to voice lead both chord tones and tensions, and will help you add a new level of sophistication to your music. This book is designed for intermediate to advanced guitar players. The accompanying CD features jazz tunes, blues and rhythm changes that you can play along with.

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Introduction
CD Track List
Rules of the (Fret)Board
Chapter 1 Harmony Review and Introduction to Voice Leading
Harmony review
Voice Leading in Action: Simple Chord Familes on the Guitar Neck
Voice Leading Chord Tones and Tensions
Other Smooth Moves: Parallel Movement
Drop-2 Voicings
Chapter 2 Major II/V/I Progressions
II/V/I Practice Guide
Practicing II/V/I Progressions
How to Work with Comping Rhythms
Comping Rhythms
II-7/V7/IMaj7 Progressions
Chapter 3 Minor II/V/I Progressions
I-7(b5)/V7(b9)/I-7 Progresions
Chapter 4 Practice Tunes and Rhythms
(None of the Things You Were)
(None of the Things You Were) Variation Using Rhythm No. 1
(Spring Arrives)
(Spring Arrives) Variation Using Rhythm No. 2
(Dear Old Stockmarket)
(Dear Old Stockmarket) Variation Using Rhythm No. 4
(I Smell Catastrophe)
(I Smell Catastrophe) Variation Using Rhythm No. 3
(Turn On Your Headlight)
(Turn On Your Headlight) Variation Using Rhythm No. 5
(If I Knew How to Cook)
(If I Knew How to Cook) Variation Using Rhythm No. 3
(I Should Have Thought About Me) Using Rhythm No. 12
(Rambos Chin) Using Rhythm No. 11
(On Great Love) Using Rhythm No. 9
(Remember Me) Using Rhythm No. 10
Rhythm Changes
Rhythm Changes (Mixed Comping Rhythms)
Blues in F - Try Your Own Comping Thythms
Blues in F Using Rhythm No. 2
Chapter 5 Extra Credit: Advanced Progressions and Turnarounds
The Functions of #IV-7(b5): What It Is and How to Use It
Madal Interchange: What It Is and How to Use It
Interpolative II-7: What It Is and How to Use It
Chromatic Approach: What It Is and How to Use It
Diatonic Turnarounds: What It Is and How to Use It
Dominant Approach: What It Is and How to Use It
Sub V7 Dominant Substitutions
Using Dominant Approach With Blues Changes
Dominant Approach Applied to Dominant 7 and Substitute Dominant 7 Turnarounds
Dominant Approach: Dominant to Dominant 7
Dominant Cycle of Fifths: Mixolydian to Mixolydian
Dominant Cycle of Fifths: Mixed to Mixed Dominants
Dominant Chords: What They Are and How to Use Them
For Further Listening
Glossary
Appendix Modes and Chord Scales
Chord Scale Quick Finder
Scale Syllabus for Improvisation
Modes in Seventh Chords for Guitar
About the Author

Welcome to Chords for Bass. This is an exciting opportunity to explore fresh new sounds in your bass playing you may have never considered. Learning to play chords will also help you find more interesting notes when playing bass lines in the regular way. It will enhance your ability to hear chord progressions and chord qualities, and to compose and arrange songs, as well as improving your soloing chops and overall musicianship.